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| 48 | 76 | At the View more quotes about foot">foot of the pole a lyre lay broken, its strings cut. |
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| 48 | 73 | The naked body, now much fed upon by jards, had been impaled horizontally on the short, thick pole, which was no more than some five feet in height. |
| 48 | 74 | The body had been placed on the sharpened point of the pole, facing upward, and then dragged downward, worked downward, wrenched downward, slowly, bit by bit, perhaps by four men, until the pole's sharpened terminus, red with blood, now a dried stain, was visible, protruding some eighteen inches above the abdomen. |
| 48 | 75 | The eyes, what was left of them, were still open, as though staring wildly at the sky. |
| 48 | 76 | At the foot of the pole a lyre lay broken, its strings cut. |
| 48 | 77 | "It is an ugly way to die," I said. |
| 48 | 78 | "An appropriate way for one such as he," said Thrasymedes. |
| 48 | 79 | "It must have been extremely painful," I said. |